 He turned to composition in 1958, and in 1962 began attending the Darmstädter Internationale Ferienkurse, where he furthered his studies with Bruno Maderna, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti, Gottfried Michael Koenig, and Theodor W. Adorno.In 1967 he participated in Stockhausen’s collective composition project "Ensemble" at Darmstadt.His compositional style is rooted in the music of the Darmstadt School.